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Show A GHASTLY JOKE ON CUPID. New York World. The cable dispatches confirmed the suspicion that the Marquis of Donegal, who has Just tottered to the altar with a young Canadian heiress, is the man who last spring advertised a title for sale for S100.000, and that the marriage took place as the result of .that advertisement. Hawthorne's description of an old man's young bride as a "flower thrown into a sepulchre" Is too poetical to suit this wideawake womaa of 24 who has promised to "love, honor and obey" a disreputable bankrupt of 8J trembling on the verge of a grave whose chiseled ! epitaph must greatly Jle of greatly shock all of Its readers. The Marchioness Is a business tfoman. Instead In-stead of intrusting $100,000 at once td quivering spendthrift claws, she is said to have settled upon her "noble" hus band $40,000 per year. It Is economy; his chance of living two years and a half is poor. Ring the merry wedding bells for the ghastliest practical Joke of the year upon Cupid! Fortanately, It is not an "international romance" the bride was a colonial British subject. |